Dulles' father was the Rev. Allen Macy Dulles, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Watertown, N. A liberal clergyman, he questioned whether belief in the Virgin Birth was essential to being a Christian, and he married divorced persons.

Dulles' conviction that he, with experience in foreign affairs dating to the Hague Conference of 1907, with a rich family background of diplomacy, was the man best qualified to call the turns of United States foreign policy.

Dulles picked up the "open skies" proposal that President Eisenhower made to the Russians at the summit conference of 1955 and used it to underline the essentiality of mutual inspection during long and inconclusive negotiations on all aspects of disarmament.

Dulles upset the leaders of several non-aligned countries when on 9th June, 1955, he argued in one speech that "neutrality has increasingly become an obsolete and except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception."

Dulles, suffering from cancer, was forced to resign from office in April, 1959 and died in Washington on 24th May, 1959.

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Dulles was born February 25, 1888 on I Street in Washington, DC, during the famous blizzard of '88.

Dulles served as foreign policy consultant to the Republican Party beginning around 1942, and he served as foreign policy advisor to his campaign in both of Dewey's failed bids for president in 1944 and 1948.

Dulles ignored etiquette that called him to act as a quiet junior senator and ruffled feathers by giving a long speech in defense of NATO in one of his first appearances on the Senate floor.

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Allen Dulles, the younger brother of U.S. State SecretaryJohn Foster Dulles (1953-59), was the mastermind of U.S. covert operations during the Cold War in the 1950s.

The Dulles brothers later demonstrate their loyalty to the company when it's assets in Guatemala are nationalized in 1954 by socialist leader Guillermo Arbenz.

In that capacity, Allen Dulles masterminds and orchestrates a number of remarkable covert intelligence operations such as the overthrow of Iranian nationalist leader Mohammed Mossagdeh (1953), the overthrow of Guatemalan leader Guilermo Arbenz (1954), and secret U-2 reconaissance flights over Russia which reveal that the Soviet nuclear arsenal is far smaller than Kruschev boasted.

Regarding Communism as a moral evil to be resisted at any cost, he firmly upheld the Chinese Nationalist defense of Matsu and Quemoy off the coast of Communist China and initiated the policy of strong U.S. backing for the South Vietnamese regime of Ngo Dinh Diem.

Dulles helped develop the Eisenhower doctrine of economic and military aid to maintain the independence of Middle Eastern countries; under its terms U.S. forces were sent to Lebanon in 1958.

Dulles' father was the Rev. Allen Macy Dulles, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Watertown, N. A liberal clergyman, he questioned whether belief in the Virgin Birth was essential to being a Christian, and he married divorced persons.

Dulles' conviction that he, with experience in foreign affairs dating to the Hague Conference of 1907, with a rich family background of diplomacy, was the man best qualified to call the turns of United States foreign policy.

Dulles picked up the "open skies" proposal that President Eisenhower made to the Russians at the summit conference of 1955 and used it to underline the essentiality of mutual inspection during long and inconclusive negotiations on all aspects of disarmament.

The metamorphosis of Avery Dulles from a boy raised in an "agnostic Protestant" internationalist family to an elderly Cardinal in the Catholic Church is so unusual that The New York Times published an interview with him in their February 11 magazine.

John Foster Dulles, the son of a Presbyterianminister, was born in Washington on 25th February, 1888.

John Foster Dulles-coming to believe that only the Gospels and international organization could preserve world order-gained wide notice as an expert on international affairs by chairing a 1941 peace commission for the Federal Council of Churches.

John Foster Dulles was one of the most influential and controversial figures in the history of twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations.

Active in the field for decades, Dulles reflected and was a reflection of the tension that pervaded U.S. international conduct from its evolution as a global power in the early twentieth century through its emergence as the "leader of the Free World" during the Cold War.

Dulles remains an enigma because he was both a crusading idealist and a calculating practitioner of realpolitik.

John Foster Dulles (1888-1959), American diplomat, was secretary of state under Eisenhower.

John Foster Dulles was born in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25, 1888.

Educated at Princeton and the law school of George Washington University, Dulles joined the international law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell in 1911, became a partner in 1920, and was head of the firm in 1927.

Machak noted that Dulles, who served as Secretary of State under President Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959, had wanted the historical record of his service accessible to historians and that the State Department had enabled several scholars to use the classified version of the microfilm during the last decade.

The opening of the Dulles microfilm is one of the highlights of the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) which is meeting this week in Princeton.

The filming project was begun at the State Department in the mid-1950s when John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State, and Dulles himself played a key role in the selection of the documents that were to be filmed.